On 10/08/2005, at 20:29, J. T. Farmer wrote:
> Scot Hetzel wrote:
>>>> On 8/10/05, Søren Schmidt <sos at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>>>>> Since I came in late in this, I need to know what kind of controller
>>>>>> we are talking about, and if the problem is still present in 6.0.
>>> I plan to backport ATA from 6.0 to 5-stable when it has settled, so
>>> 6.0 is the one and only (pre)release to test with and get back to me
>>> with the result.
>>>>>>>> They have been talking about SII and Intel ICH6 chips. And a few
>> have
>> stated that they are having problems with the 6.0-Beta releases with
>> these chips.
>>>>>> What, I'm chopped liver? :^> I'm getting these errors with a
> standard, _very_
> not "state of the art", Via KT266A/8235 chipset. PATA WDC 800
> drive. All very standard stuff for a desktop. Was running WinXP
> without a
> problem for quite some time. Generic kernel. In fact when I tried
> to install 5.4
> (and 5.4-SNAP from 5 July & 9 July), it errored out as soon as the
> install kernel
> tried to write to the disk. FS's do not work when you can't write
> the superblocks
> out... Oh yeah, writing the disklabel also generated the same error.
>> So it's not just the SATA raid type chipsets. It's plain vanilla ATA
> controllers, also.
As I said I need reports on 6.0, the ATA driver as is in 5.4 is not
supported by me unless you use the ATA mkIII patches..
- Søren